Jennifer Martelli has received fellowships from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Monson Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Poetry, Best of the Net Anthology, Braving the Body Anthology, Verse Daily, Plume, The Tahoma Literary Review, Diode, and elsewhere. She is the author of Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree, The Queen of Queens, which won the Italian American Studies Association Book Award and was shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award, and My Tarantella, which was also shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award and named finalist for the Housatonic Book Award. Jennifer Martelli is co-poetry editor for MER.

Other poems by Jennifer Martelli in Verse Daily:
December 15, 2022:   "Succulent" "I want to fill a bay window with sixteen jade plants..."
December 24, 2018:   "Fatal Mouths" "The city guys are stringing Christmas lights on the locust trees...."
December 19, 2018:   "Discussing Elephant Puppets the Night of the Refugee Ban" "Elephant puppets so big ten men can fit under their pipe bodies..."

Other poems on the web by Jennifer Martelli:
"Borrowing"
Two poems
"Writing Assignment"
Two poems
"Moon Jellyfish"
Three poems
"Corinthians 13:11"
Two poems
"Yomi"
Two poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Fatal Mouths"
"Clothes Pins"
"Grey Figs and Leaves, by Wedgwood"
"Impeachment Day: Planning the Party"
"Root"
"Doc Martens 1460 Wild Botanica"
Three poems
"When Was My Anger Conceived?"
"I Don't Have It, Do You?"
"After JFK's Assassination, (Kitty Genovese Was Murdered) Things Got Really Bad"
"Tree"
"They Found the Gallows Behind Walgreens"
"Did it take long to find me?"
"Luna Maria"

Jennifer Martelli's Website.

diode poetry journal Editor-in-Chief: Patty Paine

Home 
Archives  Web Weekly Features  Support Verse Daily  About Verse Daily  FAQs  Submit to Verse Daily 

Copyright © 2002-2025 Verse Daily All Rights Reserved